Happy New Years Eve! I hope you all have something planned that suits your own
idea of how to celebrate the occasion. If you do hit the roads, however, please
remember to be extra careful... I managed to have not one, but two scares behind
the wheel yesterday from bad drivers (a guy in oncoming traffic borrowing a
portion of my lane and a woman who thought using the turn signal before
switching to my lane meant she didn't have to even look to see if a car was
already there) within minutes of each other, which seemed to serve as a warning
about what happens when some of these drivers (even the good ones) have a few
belts in them. And of course, please don't drink and drive yourself... if safety
doesn't serve as enough of a motivator, many U.S. states, my native New York
included, have recently lowered the legal limits... in these parts it's now
illegal to drive with a blood alcohol level of over .08. Oh yeah, and for those
of you in the East where the ball (or equivalent) has dropped already, Happy New
Year (and remember, please don't tell the rest of us what happens in the future,
or our actions may change what is meant to be).

Hey look at that... guess there was indeed one last ramble at the bottom of the
2002 pile!

"Oh yeah, and for those of you in the East where the ball (or equivalent) has dropped already, Happy New Year (and remember, please don't tell the rest of us what happens in the future, or our actions may change what is meant to be)."

Am I in a time warp here? According to my clock/calendar, it's till December 31st here...??

I'm pretty bad at this time zone stuff for some reason, but if my calculations are correct, it's already the New Year in all of Australia by now, and (by the Gregorian calendar, at least) as far west as Southeast Asia by now...